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Barnett, Thomas C. "A Utopian-Mythopoesis Reading of American Puritan Jeremiads: A Reclassification of Selected Seventeenth Century New England Pulpit Literature," Department of American Studies, Saint Louis University, November 1998.
This dissertation investigates themes of utopian-mythopoesis within seventeenth-century American Puritan jeremiads. Utopian-mythopoesis is defined as specific literary-rhetorical and symbolic acts which represent essential aspects of a perfect society (of establishment Puritanism). Myths are creation stories explaining either how a culture came into existence, presently perceives itself, or projects its identity into the future. Jeremiads are political sermons lamenting New England’s spiritual and cultural declension, while also issuing a recipe for reform. This study utilizes a constructive inter-disciplinary method engaging the insights and contributions of utopian studies, myth studies, and literary-history. Findings reveal that, within jeremiads, there is strong evidence of utopian metaphors.
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